• biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    They’re there to gather data on the moon’s surface and how being on a manned mission affects the human body.

    We already have pictures of the dark side of the moon, so the intention this time was for the human eye to view it, since it gets much more detail anyway.

    • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml
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      14 hours ago

      They’ve been testing the effects of low gravity on the human body in the ISS the whole time, they absolutely do not need to send people to the moon for that. Everything they’re doing right now could be done by an unmanned mission.